The £600 billion problem awaiting the next government podcastWe speak to David Gauke and Giles Wilkes, two experts who have been at the heart of the spending review process.25 April 2024
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Should we worry about government debt? podcastDavid Miles joins us to discuss high government debt and its impact on the economy. 11 April 2024
IFS Annual Lecture - Innovation and productivity policies: a budgetary perspective event 15 May 2024 Professor Heidi Williams (Dartmouth College) delivered the 2024 IFS Annual Lecture on innovation and productivity policies.
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Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy The Research Centre at the heart of IFS is the CPP.
A comparison of the properties of non-parametric estimates of the generalised entropy class of inequality indices Working Paper26 October 1994
The comparison between destination and origin principles under imperfect competition Working Paper26 October 1994
Relative wage movements and the distribution of consumption Working PaperWe analyze how relative wage movements across birth cohorts and education groups during the 1980s affected the distribution of household consumption.1 June 1994
Tax reform and welfare measurement: do we need demand system estimation? Working PaperThis paper asks to what extent simple approximations can be used to measure the welfare costs of tax reform and evaluates the magnitude of the biases for a plausible size tax reform.1 January 1994
The creation and capture of rents: wages, market structure and innovation in UK manufacturing firms Working Paper26 October 1993